
Tech editors aren't perfect, you know. We get into arguments — fights, even! Case in point: we couldn't agree on what to temporarily call the new iPhone when we wrote up a nifty product page for it last week. Since Apple hasn't announced an official name, it's a judgment call, right? Apple iPhone 3.0, Apple iPhone 2009 — which should it be?
Thankfully, we threw out some of the more outrageous suggestions as far as naming the product page went, but if you really want to laugh, here are our top ten fake names for the new iPhone.
Before you dive into the list, check out this hilarious video from Saturday Night Live. We'd like you to imagine Fred Armisen's Steve Jobs announcing each of the following products!
10. iPhone: The Next Generation
It's an easy one, sure, but we came up with a Star Wars name too, so we had to be fair, especially since Star Trek is such a rage right now!
9. Back to the iPhone II
It's coming out in the summer, so yep, it's a blockbuster sequel. This was the first of a number of sequel-themed names, but of course we like it because it implies that maybe — just maybe — the new iPhone might be capable of time travel. Need a flux capacitor? There's an app for that.
8. iPhone Beyond Thunderdome
The iPhone is such a hyped device that a lot of people are convinced that it might just be capable of saving the lives of an entire colony of children from a post-apocalyptic wasteland of aging electronics.
7. iPhone 3: iPhone With a Vengance (Contingent upon relabeling of the second generation iPhone as iPhone 2: iPhone Harder, with the inevitable Live Free and iPhone coming in 2010).
It's a franchise, alright?
6. Apple iPhone Susan Boyle Edition
You know how there was a U2 iPod a while back? Well, in the dream world of reality TV, Susan Boyle is bigger than U2. You know it's coming.
5. iPhone Jones and the Kingdom of the OLED Display
Word is the new iPhone might have a fancy, shiny new OLED display. But we're hoping Steve Jobs doesn't cop out and say "aliens did it." Whoops, spoiler!
4. iPhone Duplicate and Adhesify Edition: Now with Copy and Paste!
More notably, the new iPhone will definitely have copy and paste features. Of course, so will the old one, so this new one might just be a marketing ploy. You've been warned.
3. iPhone Episode III: Revenge of the Background Apps
Rounding off the feature-list sequels, we've got the promised Star Wars entry. Folks complain about the lack of copy and paste in the current iPhone, but some of us are most bothered by the inability to run background applications. Will the new iPhone run backgrounds apps? Kind of, if what we know about iPhone OS 3.0 is any indication.
2. iPhone 7 Starter Edition
There's another rumor that the new iPhone will be a spinoff product called the iPhone nano, or that there will be multiple kinds of iPhones. We hope it will never be quite so bad as the zillions of versions of Microsoft Windows 7, though.
1. Jesus 3.0
The original iPhone was dubbed the "Jesus Phone" when it first came out. If it was that, then the iPhone 3G was the Second Coming. Apparently that wasn't enough to bring peace and justice to the world though. Third time's a charm?
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